I did this by hand, so a couple may be off by a game or so. A few possibilities in the mix at the top to make things interesting for the projected powers. A few teams who are just 50/50 when you take out the garbage (note that Philly has played 8 games vs. the bottom 7...the Clippers just two...with the Clips moving to a better record vs. everyone else...Lakers only have one garbage game by the way). Some additonal perspective on the woes of Boston and New York...

Miami is -11 against NYK tonight in Miami. According to my LV ratings, it would be closer to -8 if Melo were playing.

Eyballing it, RAPM says -10.5

In the last couple of days the RAPM ratings of many top teams have taken a hit. Philly has come down to earth and is not always playing with Hawes. Miami is missing Wade. Chicago is missing Deng and Gibson. The Buck's rating should take a hit soon, in the past they gave most of Bogut's minutes to Drew Gooden. The already not so great Charlotte Bobcats have to deal with major injuries and their two rookies (Walker, Biyombo) seem to be playing atrocious basketball. They're now ranked lower than the Wizards

Crow, it's all part of my "let's be careful giving too much credit to the Sixers just because they keep crushing patsies" crusade (lol). If they flipped schedules with several teams, I don't think they'd rank top four or five in so many different places. They sure do go for the jugular against bad teams though....

Some people will question / disagree with throwing out the bottom 7 opponents as they disagreed with my prior emphasis on play against the top 16 or top 10. There is worthwhile analysis / decent arguments on both sides of keep all the data or de-emphasize or throw some of it out debate. At the least IMO, it is an "interesting additional perspective" as I stated before.